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...practical arguments are even more cogent. About 80 percent of the men in the Army are employed in backing up the 20 percent doing the actual fighting. Many of these have jobs that could be done by women, and some positions are even better fitted to female than to male talents. As Mrs. Horton so pointedly asked: "Why should an able-bodied boy of 18, highly useful in agriculture or some other necessary occupation, be drafted as a stenographer in uniform while his sister, already trained as a stenographer, is left as a civilian...
...layman, the most valuable essays are the expository ones on forms--such as the musical drama--and analyses of particular works. Stokowaki's rendition of Mahler's Eighth Symphony, for example, prompts a particularly cogent study on "amorphousness...
Speaking for the bill, Home Affairs Minister Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, a leader of Nehru's Congress Party, made some cogent remarks about Communism...
After converting 600 people at Mechanics Hall on Thursday night, Canon Bryan Green made a trip to Cambridge, spoke at Radcliffe, and then went over to the Law School. After a three hour visit he had some cogent observations to make...
Other objections are equally cogent. It is simply a waste of time for a professor and his staff to file a mid-term grade for each student: the grade is sent off, chewed up by an IBM machine, and then filed in a distant archive, to be forgotten forever. Only men with the poorest grades will be hauled up before the Deans and prodded...